Your Diet Type appears to be Extreme Protein. Introduction to Metabolic Typing
Metabolic typing represents the work of many doctors, researchers and biochemists over the last 70 years. The basic concept is that everyone is metabolically unique and one man's meat is another man's poison. Many claim with complete confidence that when your metabolic type is correctly assessed and your diet and supplements adjusted accordingly, optimal health, with prevention and reversing of disease, can be achieved. They believe that metabolic typing is much more effective than 'one size fits all' generalized nutritional approaches.

Modern medicine looks at the condition and seeks to treat it. Metabolic typing looks at the person and seeks to treat them. When the person is treated correctly, many health problems resolve on their own. This is an important distinction to make.

Dr. William Kelley, with degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, biology and dentistry, developed an untreatable, aggressive form of pancreatic cancer before the age of 40. With a vegetarian diet and individualized nutrient approach, he recovered and soon was treating others. Then his wife became seriously ill and he applied the same vegetarian diet and nutrients to her. She failed to respond, becoming worse. After many failed attempts to help her, there was nothing left to do but add meat to her diet. Her recovery was swift and dramatic. From his growing experience and the work of others, he went on to develop a clinical tool for assessing metabolic individuality.

There have been no blinded trials supporting or disproving metabolic typing. This can be partially explained. Once Dr. Kelly concluded which diets benefited which types, he was understandably unwilling to give a seriously ill patient a diet that he knew would make them worse. Like any compassionate person, it would be unethical to use a placebo on someone who is seriously ill, when you know of a treatment that would help. However, if all of the treatments available to a doctor are poor, then it is much easier to conduct a trial. More research does need to be done in the area of metabolic typing.

Why do two people with the same condition not respond similarly to the same treatment? Apart from actually having different problems, it is possibly because they are biochemically different. If everyone was internally and chemically identical, some diets would work better than others, and each would work uniformly throughout the group. As it is, there are many successes and failures within a particular diet type, as well as success and failure on opposite type diets. The confusion is reduced when metabolic type is considered before recommending a diet.

The Analyst is using several such disciplines to make recommendations that will be of the most use to you. More information and further testing regarding metabolic typing, if needed, can be obtained through a service called HealthExcel. Until more research can confirm this approach, you and your doctor must decide and discover what works for you.

If you think of your food as fuel, then the proportions of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats can be viewed as your fuel mixture. If you get the right fuel for your type and the right fuel mixture, you'll have a powerful force at work. Your food will be efficiently converted to energy rather than stored as fat.

Characteristics of Your Metabolic Type
Here are some typical tendencies that you may have in common with other Extreme Protein Types:
Strong Appetite. Often very hungry; may need to eat frequently and regularly; tendency to overeat.
Cravings for Fatty, Salty Foods. If you have been eating too many carbohydrates, you may develop a sugar craving.

Dietary Emphasis for Extreme Protein Types
Overall, Extreme Protein Types need to focus on obtaining larger amounts of protein and fat in their diet, and minimizing their carbohydrate intake. Purine-containing foods are converted to energy at the right rate for you.

There are also nutrient recommendations based on your metabolic type. The customized nutrient recommendations for your type are as follows.

Nutrients to Emphasize:
Calcium, Iodine, Phosphorus, Zinc, Sulfur, Choline, Inositol, Lysine, Bioflavonoids, Vitamins A, B5, and B12.

Nutrients to De-emphasize:
Potassium, Magnesium, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Silicone, Boron, Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, C, D, Paba, biotin, and Folic acid.

There may be conflicts with other recommendations elsewhere, or with your personal experience. Please do not be discouraged by this. Life is a journey and adventure, and you can successfully find those things which are most beneficial for you.

You need to become familiar with the Allowable Foods Charts for Protein types. The DIETARY CHARTS used in food selection for balancing your metabolic type are located HERE. You need to be leaning substantially toward the Protein table, and away from foods on the Carbohydrate table. There are different kinds of proteins. Some are high in fat and high in purines, others low. The high-fat, high-purine proteins are best for Extreme Protein types.

Finding the right balance among protein, fat, and carbohydrate is your key to losing weight, feeling energized both mentally and physically, and staying on an even keel emotionally. Over the longer term, a heavy protein and fat diet, if properly followed and tailored to your metabolic individuality, can prevent you from developing many serious degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular problems, immune deficiency, blood sugar abnormalities, osteoporosis, arthritis, digestive disorders, and other chronic illnesses rooted in metabolic imbalance.

Key points to remember:
- Eat Protein at every meal
- Emphasize high purine proteins
- Snack as needed
- Be careful with carbohydrates. Limit bread intake. Use sprouted bread (such as Ezekiel), and use butter.
- Closely monitor fruit consumption. Avoid fruit juice. Low to moderate fresh vegetable juice is OK.
- Use fats and oils generously. Don't forget to balance the omega 6 and omega 3 oils.

70% of your diet should come from proteins and fats, 30% from carbohydrates. Popular books about high protein diets include Dr. Atkin's New Diet Revolution and The Zone by Barry Sears.